Forlandet National Park covers the island of Prins Karls Forland and its surrounding waters on the Svalbard archipelago, established by royal resolution on 1 June 1973. It protects 616 square kilometers of land and 4,031 square kilometers of sea, totaling about 4,647 square kilometers, and is recognized for hosting the world's most northerly range of seals and the world's most northerly population of common guillemot. Its Forlandsoyane Bird Sanctuary is a Ramsar-listed wetland and the whole park qualifies as an Important Bird Area for breeding barnacle geese, common eiders and black guillemots, and it also holds archaeological remains left by Norwegian and Russian hunters and whalers.
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